At the beginning of the Mao hour, Tang Zhongbai got up and took Tang San and Tang Si to the government office in the town. He handed over the evidence and the purse found in the shop owner's house to the mayor.

In order to prevent him from embezzling money, he hinted that he had already sent a letter to the chief clerk of the county government.

If these silver coins cannot be delivered to the victim, Hu Yu will hold him accountable.

When the fat uncle learned what the shop owner had done, he was deeply upset and even scolded him for being stupid.

Tang San and Tang Si brought some steamed buns from the breakfast shop in the town. They ate a little and then drove on their way.

The rest of the journey was smooth and Liu Ying also adapted to the bumps.

A team of horse-drawn carriages finally arrived at Suanzao County in the afternoon of November 16th.

When they arrived home, Lu Chaoyun, who had been waiting for a long time, took his daughter and looked at her for a long time. His eyes were red and tears were welling up in his eyes.

"Mom, I'm fine, aren't I? Why are you crying?" She hugged Lu Chaoyun into her arms and held her tightly.

After Tang Zhongbai came back, he went to the government office without stopping. He was relieved to leave the affairs of the government office to Li Changli.

The specialties brought back from the county town were given to Lu Chaoyun to pack and distribute.

She called Fu Zi and went to the lantern workshop first, then to Tuanyuanju, and finally returned to Qingfeng Villa with a lot of bags.

When Yin Haitang saw her, he pulled her into the house, closed the door, and recounted in detail what had happened in the Jiang family's main house during the three months she was away.

Half a month after she went to the county town, Zhou Huaihua sneaked out of her home and did not return for three days.

Qi searched the whole village but couldn't find her.

Three days later, when Old Lady Yang got up early to herd sheep by the river, she found a man lying motionless in the grass by the river.

She thought he was a drunkard, so she pushed aside the grass to check. What she saw frightened her so much that she had nightmares for days and fell seriously ill.

When Zhou Huaihua was found, her body was swollen and white, her eyes were bulging and her mouth was protruding. She looked very scary.

She was drowned.

With the help of Xu Da, the person was buried on the same day. This person had done this all her life, but in the end she didn't have a good death. After her death, no one saw her off.

Jiang Yuchang stayed at home drunkenly, Jiang Lingye was paralyzed in bed, and a little great-grandson was stupid and dumb. The family expenses were all supported by Qi's helpers.

In the winter when there was no work to do, she stayed at home and weaved cloth to earn some money.

"Zhou died, why didn't you inform my second cousin?" Jiang Muxia asked in confusion.

With Jiang Lingye's personality, he would not only call Jiang Qiangang back, but also force his entire family to come back from the county town to serve him well.

"It was your grandmother who stopped him. She had a big fight with your grandfather and left him alone for two days before the old man calmed down." She knew that Qi didn't want to cause trouble for Jiang Qiangang.

Jiang Muxia sneered. She didn't sympathize with them at all. Instead, she wanted to thank them. If they hadn't made such a big fuss, her family and the second uncle's family wouldn't have been able to crawl out of the fire pit. Their fate today was not even half as bad as her family's in her previous life.

This family finally paid the price for their stupidity.

Qi was willing to burn herself to help them, and she had no right and no desire to interfere.

She had no intention of telling Qi about her marriage.

"You're getting married the day after tomorrow. Are you nervous?"

"To be honest, I still have some concerns. Although I learned some rules from the nanny in the county town, I am still afraid of embarrassing him."

"Yes, the Tang family is a noble family in Beijing. But you should not underestimate yourself. Our Mu Xia is a rare talent, no worse than those noble ladies in Beijing. Every penny they spend until they die is not earned by themselves, and they rely on their parents and husbands to live. How can you compare to you, who have earned a fortune that no man can earn with your own hands."

Yin Haitang tried to persuade her seriously. She had heard that the waters in Beijing were very deep, and she was afraid that she would be cowardly and be controlled by others. No matter how good Tang Zhongbai was to her, he couldn't stay by her side every day. If she was tricked by others, she would die without knowing how.

Jiang Muxia smiled calmly. She was not worried about the troubles of the noble ladies. In her previous life, she had been with that man and had seen too many intrigues among the noble ladies. She didn't take such a clumsy trick seriously.

Her only worry now was something the personal maid who was with the man in her previous life had told her.

On the 23rd day of the twelfth month of the twelfth year of the Yuanhe reign, the man was tricked by his favorite concubine into falling into the lake and fell seriously ill. He almost died. When they were about to put her in the coffin, she suddenly woke up. After waking up, her personality changed drastically.

It took him two months to tame the concubines in his mansion, and three years to acquire several properties, increasing his net worth several times.

After living a new life, she thought about that man's sudden change many times and suspected that the person she met was also a reborn person like her.

Jiang Muxia didn't know what her fate would be in this life, so she didn't dare to gamble.

She wanted to help her, to help her escape the disaster.

Jiang Muxia held Yin Haitang's hand tightly and said in a serious tone, "We women rely on luck to get married. There are very few people in the Wu Dynasty who can marry the person we like. So, before you go out, you must learn a skill to support yourself. If you can earn money by yourself, your husband's family won't dare to look down on you."

A light bulb went off in her head and an idea came to her mind.

It's a good idea, but now is not the right time. Let's make plans after she returns from Beijing.

The sun was setting and she had to go back to the city.

When the carriage reached the sedan chair at the entrance of the village, Fuzi slammed the brakes on the carriage with a "whoosh".

She swayed and reached out to grab the car window to avoid falling.

His roaring voice came from outside the car, "Do you want to die?"

"What's wrong?" Jiang Muxia lifted the car curtain and looked in the direction Fu Zi was looking.

In front of the carriage, a mother and daughter knelt in the middle of the road, crying.

"They suddenly fell to their knees in the middle of the road. Luckily I reacted quickly." Fuzi was angry, her face turned blue, and she yelled at them, "If you have something to say, just say it. If not, just leave quickly. You are blocking our way, but you don't leave or say anything. It's like we are bullying you."

Jiang Muxia felt that the woman in front of her looked familiar, but she couldn't remember who she was, so she had to ask.

"Whose daughter-in-law are you? Do you have something to ask of me?"

The woman wiped her tears and kowtowed to her, "Auntie, I know you have a kind heart, please accept my daughter. She is in good health and smart. Please consider it as saving her life, I beg you."

Jiang Muxia's eyes turned cold, and she finally remembered who she was.

The woman was Xue Caoer, the daughter-in-law of the Jiang Heshui family, the woman whose husband died early and whose father-in-law was rumored to have an affair.

She stayed at home most of the time, never went out, and rarely interacted with the villagers.

What happened today that made her want to give away her only daughter?

Looking at her expression, she seemed determined to fight to the death.

"Your father-in-law..."

Before she could finish her words, the woman interrupted her angrily, "No, never. That old beast did have ideas about me. But I beat him out and made him swear in front of the child's father's spirit tablet. If he dares to have ideas about me, I will kill him and then commit suicide with the child, so that he will have no descendants."

Jiang Muxia nodded, she was quite a strong woman.

"Why are you like this today?"

"The old beast wants to sell me. A good girl won't marry two husbands. I will never agree to it even if I die. The only thing I miss is my underage daughter. If you entrust her to me, I will have no regrets when I die." The woman's eyes were firm, and the girl beside her hugged her and cried.

"You have no regrets, but what about her? Do you know how miserable a child without a mother will live?" Jiang Muxia looked at her and remembered herself in her previous life. Children are the apple of a woman's eye, but they are not the apple of someone else's eye.

"Let me ask you, if you are not afraid of death, are you afraid of losing face?"

The woman was stunned, not knowing what she meant, but she still answered, "Not afraid."

"Okay, since you are not afraid of losing face, I have a plan that will allow you to stay in the village and accompany your daughter to grow up. Jiang and Shui will not dare to make plans against you in the future. Are you willing to do it?"

The woman showed surprise on her face. She looked down at the child in her arms, and when she looked up again, her face was full of determination.

She nodded heavily, "You say, I'll do it."

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